several of their tailgaters joined us at one point and I was amazed at their knowledge of our team - they’d been watching film.

I also remember one guy taking about how we were well coached and had some talented players but ‘y’all need some more brothers out there’. I think he meant we lacked speed in the skill positions.

Welcome back to Portland! My oldest son and I will be there too. Let's make sure we connect in person.

Absolutely!

from what I remember of the ‘crowd’ at that stadium, it shouldn’t be hard to find each other.

That’s a terrible setting. Miles from stadium in basically a city park. Stands on the home side only. Behind the visitor’s bench are several softball field. Very uncollege-like atmosphere!

Right! My kid's high school played in the 6A championship game last fall, and I was like, WTF? Luckily, my son went to the Oregon and Oregon State games, so he knows we're not a high school team.

Finn, I'll be in touch.

Legend......Barnum buys $14k worth of beers for fans who showed up during a pandemic game in 2021.

https://www.si.com/college/2021/09/22/portland-state-free-beer-fans-bruce-barnum

To quote The Boondock Saints, "You'd probably have better luck with beer."

Looking at the Barnum's bar tab, I'm surprised to see that Coors Light won big over Oregon's own Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA that's brewed locally in Bend!

Here's a little tidbit of PSU history from the past that a few of us old timers might remember:

Longtime FCS fans will remember that this is the same Portland State that attracted national attention in 1980 when head coach Mouse Davis invented the run-and-shoot and the Vikings beat Delaware State 105-0.

Quarterback Neil Lomax had seven touchdown passes in that game. In the first quarter. And placekicker John Kincheloe set a record that will never be broken by going 15-for-15 on extra points.

Also that year, Portland State beat Cal Poly Pomona, 93-7, and Weber State, 75-0.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/vikings-looking-for-first-win-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=149743241&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Deschutes Brewery is first rate, but Coors Light is a very popular beer, ha.

Dunning picks the Aggies by 28:

AGGIES over PORTLAND STATE ... The Aggies have won four in a row. The Vikings have lost four in a row. Enough said. Take the Ags by 28.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/bobs-picks-welcome-to-the-big-ten?utm_source=publication-search

They must have run out of Deschutes!

For sure! Personally, Coors Light taste smells like kerosene to me and probably tastes about the same!

i attended the first PSU vs Davis game in 1974. Davis scored 50. Davis didn’t win again until 2005.

I played in the 1992 playoff game against Portland state. We got off the plane on Friday in Portland in the pouring rain. We did our walk through in pouring rain. We went to bed and it was still raining. We woke up Saturday morning to pouring rain. We played the game in a complete downpour. Khari Jones couldn't grip the ball and the defense was on roller skates. Portland State had no problems at all. We lost 42-28 after scoring some points late. I'll never forget that game. It should have been played in Davis as we were the higher ranked team, but that's how things went in the D2 days. Oh, and when the plane took off, it was still raining. I never knew it could rain that much.

Great story. Thanks for posting it, Amurden.

Unfortunately, those days of regular rainstorms in the PNW and northern California are largely a thing of the past now and, instead, we find ourselves praying for rain and hoping that the wildfires don't turn into raging firestorms that consume everything in their path.

We've had two great winters and a record NYE downpour. Bring back logging, fire trails and controlled burns. We should voraciously use our fire departments to aid in controlled burns - all that high-paid labor sitting idle.

There was a good rain here today, supposed to be clear tomorrow at game time, high 60's.

Man, getting off that plane today from hot af Davis must have been nice for the boys......

GO AGS! BEAT THE VIKINGS!

Hopefully this is not a trap game. Go Ags!

Any active PSU board? The one linked on AST hasn't had a post since April...and that was the first one since 2022

I'm not aware of any outside of the same one you are talking about. Just about the only PSU presence that I see is the poster JALMOND on anygivensaturday.

Interesting that ESPN has the spread at Davis -8.5 considering we're ranked top 10 and PSU is winless with the worst total team defense stats in all of FCS. I would expect it to be larger. Not counting the Vikings out even in the slightest just seems strange to me.

Flows from comparative scores. That is what results from every opponent scoring in the fourth quarter. Comparative score algorithm don’t rate Davis vey highly. Example is that Davis is rated fifth in the big sky by Sagarin.
I don’t think point spreads reflect much analysis but if they did they might reckon that Davis has given up a ton of yardage to inexperienced QBs and now they are facing a veteran.

@CA Forever Portland State, something about a watertight crate.

No home crowd, at all, you think we got it bad in Davis. It's not that bad

They averaged 2600 people per game last year. That's pretty brutal.

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-2023-attendance-leaders-bzbz/

After last weeks tense game, I could use a blowout today. Weather looks great.